- For what reason does Jesus take her there for thirty years?
But why Lord this time of thirty years? Why
such a long exile for a love so great? When I behold the Magdalene I see no
other than Jesus living in her and her living in Jesus. Thus, I have to search
in Jesus and not outside of Him, for the cause of such a long time. This makes
me think and say (I believe with His guide and blessing) that those thirty
years that Magdalene spent on earth, unknown to the earth are dedicated to
honor and to participate in spirit in the thirty years of the hidden life of
Jesus…
She will participate interiorly and
spiritually of these thirty years of the life of the Son of God when He lived
more in heaven than on earth, when he lived more before the presence of the
angels that adored Him than before the presence of the men who did not merit to
know Him.
In conforming Magdalene with Him in His life
on earth, He wants the years of Magdalene to coincide with the years of his
passive humanity. He wants her to remain on earth in grace and in love, a
precious and divine love, as many years as He was present on earth carrying out
His life divinely human and humanly divine. Just as in this life He has endured
an exile and privation of so many acts and states that were due to His
greatness and glory, He wills that His state of so long a duration, a state of
privation so admirable in a divine person be honored and accompanied by a state
of exile and privation that should be endured by a soul so precious and eminent
in its love, so united to Him in favors and privileges and yet so separated
from Him due to so great a love. In this
way, she honors and accompanies the hidden life of Jesus, unknown and deprived
of the dignity due to His person with a life unknown and deprived of the joy
due to His love. That is why Jesus takes her to a place withdrawn from all
human communication and guides her to the most profound solitude.
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